Friday, March 27, 2009

Heavy lifting ...

... Multiverses, Possible Worlds, and God.

This argument discussed in this post appeared in a comment on this post of mine: More on d'Espagnat ...

I continue to feel uneasy over references to God as the intelligent designer of the world. The Nicene Creed calls God ποιητὴν οὐρανοῦ καὶ γῆς, which we could translate as poet of heaven and earth. I certainly think the idea of God as a maker in the sense that a poet is makes more sense than the notion of God as a maker in the sense that a carpenter is. I also think that it is important to understand God as creating now, not sometime in the past. Creation is what God does.

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